I agree, that was a nasty surprise and there no longer seems to be any warning when I close the window without thinking. It's annoying to have to go into history to find what tabs I had open. I thought the whole point of Lion and Mountain Lion was restoring states after closure.

In OS X Mountain Lion there's a checkbox in the General section of System Preferences labeled "Close windows when quitting an application." I unchecked it, and for me, that restored the Safari behavior so it opens all the windows from my last session when I start it.

Already unchecked for me and it does allow reopening of all tabs *if* I have quit Safari 6.

The main problem seems instead to be if I simply (i.e. unthinkingly) close the main window. There is no warning given at that point. If then I quit Safari it will quite correctly restore that empty state. So, Apple, where did the warning go to? Also, commenting on earlier advice about the 'Reopen all windows from last session' menu option in the History menu, that seems to be permanently greyed-out for me.

Alas it still doesn't reslove the original problem. With the right settings as above Safari will resore tabs if it has been quit. However, if in a momentary lapse one closes the main window with the red button, all tabs are closed without any kind of 'Did you mean to ...' warning and Safari will not restore those tabs other than one at a time through delving in History. It's the lack of a warning message that really irks because at least that would give a momentary pause for thought as to whether one really wants to lose the lot. Please Apple, fix this minor point.

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